Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Theme day: not so funny sign

Today 1st of the month is theme day for City Daily Photo bloggers and this month's theme is Funny signs. My sign above isn't funny at all : a website pretending to provide news photos from around the world is simply stealing contents (photos and text) from my blog and many other CDP blogs. In fact this website is entirely made up of stolen material - that's cheap contents! I hope that the image above will discourage them : when their automated system picks up my stolen blog post, this message is what their readers will get to see. If enough of us CDP bloggers do this, their home page will be full of our angry warning messages. I hope this drives their readers away. Wish me luck!NOTE : if you read me on World News Photos, don't let copyright violators steal our work. Support the authors : switch to the City Daily Photos portal for wonderful daily photos of hundreds of cities worldwide and to my blog Avignon in Photos to see Provence through my eyes.

To CDP members - I refuse to provide a link to the rogue website in question but you will find them if you do a google search with that name. If you want to know if your own photos are stolen, you can do a search with your city name using the search tool on their right side bar. If you find your photos are stolen too, two actions you can take :1. report it to Google adsense as violation of copyright.2. do what I did and post a warning sign (you're welcome to copy/paste mine) above your regular photo. Their engine will pick up the first photo in your blog post and the warning message is what will appear on their homepage.

Nathalie! I went to city daily photos and Bibi wrote a letter giving the address of the world photo site.

I went and saw. Ha ha Bergson was right there in the front page with his sign up about stealing. FUNNY.

I followed Bibi's instructions and I filed an infringement of copyright. ha ha. I said it was an infringement of copyright of a site I had been visiting for a long time.

You just click on the google adsense and report abuse.

It is awful! They do cite the original source but they have to ask permission to use the photo.!It is easy to report the abuse for any of your fellow readers.They can go to the city daily photo news-they will find the link to the violating site-at the top of the violating site their is google adsense and you just click on that to report the abuse. It takes a minute.

It is funny how they link up your photography to some commercial need -like they said kaleidoscopic studios with reference to your title on the kaleidoscopic rose and then your text rides on about the infringement right under the rose -like who cares like they are living in some kind of void and you can leave a comment but it has comment moderation and I din't notice if there were any comments posted.....actually I wrote poetry like that once for a while-I would google my lines and use the links but it wasn't commercial well not most of the time...and then they have their own copyright at the bottom of the page.It could be kind of pretty but they should have your permission and shouldn't you share the financial rewards ha ha.

Ah clever you to use this as a funny sign even tho, as you say, it's not. I have a doubt the perpetrators will even see these signs because, as we know, it's all automated. Somehow we have to find who owns the site. It took me months to find who was stealing mine but eventually I did. I wonder how many people view it - it doesn't come up anyway on a google search - well not on the first page anyway.

Thanks Nathalie, for letting us know. I saw the warning message in another blog and asked the owner what it is about and he sent me here so I can know what is happening.I'll try to alert more bloggers.Thanks again.